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18 years of Abahlali baseMjondolo
In 2005, the movement was established because the impoverished, the marginalised and the shack dwellers of South Africa were continuously rejected or left out by the system that had promised to be democratic and free to every citizen of South Africa.
ANC profits while KwaZulu-Natal residents thirst
The ANC does not care about poor black people.
Radical Reprint: The Labour War in South Africa
A historical tale in which South African miners strike while Herbert Gladstone fiddles.
Abahlali baseMjondolo Women’s League celebrate Women’s Day
Today we celebrate Women’s Day, which is held on the anniversary of the Women’s March in 1956 when 20 000 women marched against the “pass laws” which mandated people of colour to carry an internal passport and severely restricted their movement.
UnFreedom Day held by Abahlali baseMjondolo
We were made poor so that others could be made rich and we are kept poor so that others can remain rich.
Justice delayed and denied for Abahlali baseMjondolo
Freedom continues its coverage of Abahlali baseMjondolo, a South African movement of shack dwellers who organise land occupations and communes: The attempt by the local ANC – working with the police, private security, the anti-land invasion unit and forces within the prosecuting authority – to destroy the eKhenana Commune has been relentless. The attacks on
Abahlali baseMjondolo organise against systemic violence against women in South Africa
Freedom introduces the Abahlali baseMjondolo, a South African movement of shack dwellers who organise land occupations and communes. Here is their statement on their planned 16 Days of Activism. To be in movement means to be in permanent struggle, every day, every week, every year. For us this includes working to build democratic women’s power
Organise or Starve: Life under lockdown in South Africa’s shackdweller movements
Abahlali baseMojondolo write on the solidarity being shown in the face of State and capital’s violence against impoverished South Africans. Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic social movements have been in the forefront of building networks of mutual aid and solidarity. In Brazil our comrades in the Landless Workers’ Movement, the MST, have already
South Africa: Evictions mark first day of national lockdown
Even as police let loose with rubber bullets and beatings against shoppers yesterday in an effort to enforce the new national Covid-19 lockdown, in Durban they were turfing people into the street. The eThekwini municipality evicted residents from the Ekuphumeleleni settlement near Shallcross in Ward 17 on Friday when, at 2pm, nine vehicles linked to
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Lambeth Mutual Aid—5 years on
Not only are we still around, we’re also setting up our own non-hierarchical school, organising a free cafe, and collaborating with other grassroots groups ~ The LMA Collective ~ There’s a story of how Lambeth Mutual Aid began, as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic: that immediate desire people had in March 2020 to support
State attacks elderly protestors in Buenos Aires
Javier Milei’s ultra-liberal policies have doubled the prices of medicines and essential services, with a sharp decline in the value of pensions ~ Rob Latchford ~ A demonstration by pensioners, supported by football fans and social organisations, in Argentina on Wednesday 12 March ended in violent clashes with the police, the arrest of at least
John Couzin (1934–2025)
The Glasgow anarchist poet and propagandist was a seeker of peace ~ Ethel McDonald ~ One of the leading lights of contemporary anarchism, John Couzin, died at home in Glasgow, Scotland in his partners arms aged almost 91.
Teslas on fire as Musk prepares to colonise Mars
Richest man’s unhinged incompetence fuels backlash against oligarchy ~ Rob Latchford ~ A person dressed in black shot at several Tesla vehicles before igniting two of them at a repair facility in Las Vegas in the early hours of Tuesday morning (18 March).
The adventures of G. P. Maximoff
How the Russian anarcho-syndicalist became a political journalist, ended up in the Red Army, and helped organise Kropotkin’s funeral ~ Nikolai Gerasimov ~ In the 1930s, Chicago was the capital of American gangsters.
